In what is believed to be the biggest case of its kind in Australia, a court in Perth has ruled that teenager Olivia Mead should receive $25 million from her father's estate, the billionaire Michael Wright whose father was a business partner of Perth mining magnate Lang Hancock. Olivia Mead ...

Women confronted with domestic violence face fear and intimidation in the home. But those feelings can continue even when they decide to take action and seek court orders against offenders. The legal sector has ramped up pressure on the Victorian government to make court buildings safer to ...

A public hearing into child sexual abuse at Sydney's Knox Grammar School has heard from a new witness who has shed more light on a mysterious incident involving a sex offender known as 'The Balaclava Man'. The school's former headmaster has also been accused of assaulting a girl during rehearsals ...